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Multiple drives reporting sames chkdsk errors!

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February 5, 2010 8:01:24 PM

Hello all,

I'd like to add a new Hitachi 2TB drive to my system. HITACHI Deskstar 7K2000 HDS722020ALA330 (0F10311) 2TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive.

I ordered the drive, installed it and ran a full format on it. When chkdsk finished after ~13 hours chkdsk replied with:


1953512000 KB total disk space.
0 KB in 1 files.
4 KB in 9 indexes.
879770176 KB in bad sectors.
125604 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
1073616216 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
488378000 total allocation units on disk.
268404054 allocation units available on disk.


Seeing as almost 50% of the sectors were bad, I returned it. I bought an exact same drive from another Internet vendor, installed, formatted, chkdsk it and GOT THE SAME EXACT ERRORS!!!

What are the odds of that? I ran the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test on it (Full Test) and it found no problems?

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

TIA, Frank

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February 6, 2010 2:00:33 PM

Can anyone recommend a comprehensive disk surface analysis program? Something that is more intelligent than the 20 y/o chkdsk??

Thanks,

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February 6, 2010 6:53:09 PM

I just ran HD Tune Pro and it's showing no errors what so ever? Any thoughts???

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February 8, 2010 5:36:46 PM

I decided to NOT trust the chkdsk results and did a quick format and am using the drive as is.

I'd still like to know if anyone knows of a good, non-destructive surface analysis tool...
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June 7, 2010 5:59:34 PM

What make is your SATA controller? I've seen this problem occur on both 32 and 64 bit systems under XP or Win2003, a common thread seems to be that all were using Intel ICH7/9 controllers.
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June 8, 2010 12:31:32 PM

It's an ASUS P5E motherboard. It has an Intel ICH9 controller.

I've been using the drive daily since the original postings and haven't had a single problem.
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June 18, 2010 12:20:17 PM

Best answer selected by garberfc.
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